Assistant Engineer
Resume:
Munehiro Nakazato
Sony Electronics, Inc.
San Jose, CA
****@********.***
http://www.nakazato.org
EDUCATIONPh.D., Computer Science,, 2003
Advisor: Prof. Thomas S. Huang
M.E. Computer Science,, Japan, 1997
B.E. Electrical Engineering,, Japan, 1995
SKILLSProgramming LanguagesC/C++ (15 years), JAVA AWT/Swing (10 years), Objective-C, Perl, Ruby, MATLAB, Csh, LISP/Scheme, Lex/Yacc, LaTeX and SQL.
XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
Programming PlatformUNIX System Programming (11 years), POSIX, TCP/IP, Cocoa, OpenGL, CAVE, X-Windows, CGI, CLAPACK, etc.
Windows Programming with Win32 and MFC
J2EE, Java JNI/RMI
System AdministrationUNIX, WindowsNT/2000, Mac OS9, OS X, Apache, and Tomcat.
Natural LanguagesEnglish, Japanese.
EXPERIENCE
(2006-present) Technical Lead, Sony Electronics, Inc., San Jose, CA.
Leading development of H.264 Video CODEC algorithm and firmware for a media
processor for digital still cameras and camcorder.
Designing algorithms of Motion estimation HW.
Rate control algorithm developemnt and evaluation.
Firmware architecture design and development.
Code tuning and optimizaion.
(2003-2006) Senior Engineer, Sony Electronics, Inc., San Jose, CA.
Programmable SoC Solutions for H.264/AVC Video Encoder/Decoder.
Software Architect : Leading development of a realtime AVC encoder SW for an embedded media processor.
Software Architect : Designed SW architecture of AVC HD decoder for an embedded media processor.
Algorithm optimization and Code tuning.
SIMD optimization of H.264/AVC. SIMD instruction set design.
(1999-2003) Research Assistant,, Urbana, Illinois.
Multimedia Database. Research on user interface, learning algorithms and storage for content-based image retrieval systems.
for Information Access Online Learning Algorithms for Image Retrieval.
Efficient Data Structure for storing/retrieving High-dimensional numerical data.
Immersive Virtual Reality system for Multimedia Retrieval.
Collaborative Virtual Reality Navigation/Control with Wireless-Equipped Portable Computers.
Implemented a Java Servlet-based client-server image retrieval system (2000) Programmer and Adviser,, Hamamatsu, Japan. Designed and implemented a Web Service for Multimedia Travel Information System, with which the users search travel information with keywords, pictures and maps.
Advised on the integration of web services, multimedia database and Oracle.
(1997) Research Programmer,, Tokyo, Japan
Researched and implemented "Ubiquitous Computing VCR system," a speech
and gesture activated video recording system.
Implemented the Graphical User Interface and Speech Recognition Interface.
(1995-1997) Research Assistant,, Yokohama, Japan
Designed and implemented "Agent-Oriented Information Base," a distributed information system which automatically adjusts the query preference based on the user's behavior.
Implemented messaging protocol between user hosts and servers
Studied negotiation scheme for software agents on behalf of their own users.
Sponsored by Information Technology Promotion Agency of Japan.
(1995-1997) Computer Instructor,, Tokyo, Japan
Tutored the employee UNIX System Administration.
Edited the text books.
(1995-1997) Network Administration Committee,, Yokohama, Japan
Established the policy of network administration of the campus.
(1995) Teaching Assistant,, Yokohama, Japan
Tutored students Computer system organization and machine language programming.
HONORS, AWARDS (March, 2002) The Best Paper Award in 5th International Conference on Visual Information Systems.
(2001-2002) The President of Illini Japanese Association (IJA) SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Munehiro Nakazato and Thomas S. Huang,
"Group-Oriented User Interface for Digital Image Management,"
Demonstration at International Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST2002), 2002.
Munehiro Nakazato and Thomas S. Huang,
"Extending Image Retrieval with Group-Oriented Interface,"
In Proceedings of IEEE ICME2002, 2002.
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Terrence Chen, Munehiro Nakazato and Thomas S. Huang,
"Speeding up the Similarity Search in Multimedia Database,"
In Proceedings of IEEE ICME2002, 2002.
Munehiro Nakazato, Ljubomir Manola and Thomas S. Huang,
"Group-based Interface for Content-based Image Retrieval,"
In Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI'02), 2002.
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Munehiro Nakazato, Ljubomir Manola and Thomas S. Huang,
"ImageGrouper: Search, Annotate and Organize Image by Groups,"
In Fifth International Conference on Visual Information Systems (VISual 2002), 2002
Munehiro Nakazato and Thomas S. Huang,
"3D MARS: Immersive Virtual Reality for Content-Based Image Retrieval,"
In Proceedings of 2001 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2001), 2001
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